open() not handling previously opened serial port gracefully?

[Pierre A. Humblet]

At 07:33 PM 10/31/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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>Go ahead and check this in, Pierre.

OK, but I still have outstanding questions about the process:
- Do you expect a specially formatted string in the -m argument
  of commit?
- Is the ChangeLog updated by a separate commit, or in some 
  automagic way?

Pierre